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Somers, James R.; Wilder, Jerry R. – Journal of College Placement, 1981
Describes a computerized job-matching program (MESA) that assists students and alumni in securing positions. Results indicate this system has introduced students to a large number of otherwise unconsidered career opportunities. (RC)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Guidance, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedPresdee, Mike – Society, 1982
Educational and occupational training programs initiated in times of high unemployment are actually designed to maintain social control of the unemployed. Current efforts by the Australian government to educate young, unemployed school leavers wrongfully shift the blame for unemployment away from the economy and onto the work force itself.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Capitalism, Dropouts, Economic Factors
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 continues a long-standing federal commitment to help disadvantaged persons prepare to obtain employment. The legislation works primarily through a locally based program delivery system to provide remedial education, training, and employment assistance to low-income and long-term unemployed youth and adults.…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Business Responsibility
United Steelworkers of America (AFL-CIO), Pittsburgh, PA. – 1986
This report describes job training and placement programs offered by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) for members dislocated by plant closings and job reductions. The first part of the booklet provides general information about the Steelworkers' worker assistance programs, including program summary, program principles, the comprehensive…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
The Job Training Partnership Act is intended to establish programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force and to afford job training to those economically disadvantaged individuals who are in special need of such training to obtain productive employment. The act is organized into five titles. This document contains an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, American Indians, Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1982
The Job Training Partnership Act is intended to establish programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force and to afford job training to those economically disadvantaged individuals who are in special need of such training to obtain productive employment. The act is organized into five titles. This document contains…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, American Indians, Disadvantaged Youth
Hahn, Andrew; Lerman, Robert – 1983
This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
